February 2010
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LOL moment of the day: “… She’s a machine.” refering to Tricia Helfer’s character in “Burn Notice”
The choice of music in the first trailer for “The Crazies” completely creeped me out… hope I remember to watch it http://ping.fm/el5X3
my Asus 1201N netbook is now outputing to my 24” monitor…. in full hd. Feels strange…
Looks like I just revived a friend’s Linksys Access Point that had been taking up space in my bedroom for many months.
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Quiz: Find the problem with the following command “dd if /dev/zero bs 3469070336 of /media/disk/casper-rw count 1” ubuntu fail
Anyone else using synergy or synergy+ having problems keeping the same keyboard layout on server and client?
Just in case you missed it: http://www.insideyoursearch.com/
I really want Youtube to switch to HTML5, but Chrome needs to step up… can’t get any video to start playing…
oh crap…. Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland is gonna be in 3D… what a disappointment.
First thought after seeing Avatar: pretty decent, just wish they could have made it without 3D.
Still haven’t got my netbook and I’m already looking into how to take it apart to do some upgrading.
Mega-#win of the week. Got my hands on two of the cartoon shows from me childhood. Saber Rider and The Swat Kats.
I find myself listening to tracks I own on youtube disco. Must be the weekend laziness.
So… what’s the best VPS service to have in the USA to use as proxy for all that content that’s blocked to european ip addresses?
Just discovered the Split Browser firefox addon. And now I want a 30” monitor…. “Tile all tabs” really?!?!
All of a sudden I was all cold and alone, offline… unable to tweet…. The humanity!!! …..it was a scary 10 minutes, just now.
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looks like nautilus crashes if you try and open the Trash with lots of items. ubuntu gnome
trying to use Amazon S3 and s3cmd to create a bucket, but keeps failing for EU buckets. Anyone else having this problem?
Fantastic reference to Firefly in episode 2x06 of Castle. Love this show.
Bing maps kind of blows Google Earth out of the water…. http://ping.fm/weyaQ
typed “label:Buzz” into the GMail search box; Got a bunch of posts/messages/buzzes (???) from people I don’t know. Is this the public stream?
Giving AnimeTV a try…(yes, I like manga/anime! bite me!) http://revision3.com/AnimeTV
Can anyone recommend an off-site (easy to use) backup service? It’s for family photos. So far, I’m considering carbonite.
Damn! deleted some photos by mistake…. can’t get them back…. not happy
So it’s okay to put ads in your rss feed but not the (full) content? srsly?! adblock++
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Chrome and Chromium both crashing seconds after starting. Anyone else having this problem? ubuntu jaunty chrome chromium
how many ways are there to set you google avatar? I keep setting it, but some services don’t get it.
if I keep inter-connecting all these social networks it’s surely gonna end up in a deadlock/infinite recursion and take down the internetz. Sorry, in advanced.
the outside references in the tv series “Castle” are amazing. Smoothly introduced.
dear interwebz, can anyone explain to me how the Seesmic web twitter client is able to make cross-domain requests without my browser freaking out? kthnxbye
ears still popping from yesterday’s flight from Brussels to OPorto. Crappy PGA lightweight plane…
now that i’m back, i’ll start getting the country back on track. does tomorrow work for all of you?
Back home from FOSDEM.
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have I mentioned I’m at FOSDEM’10? Probably the best organized conference I’ve been to…. and it’s just started. fosdem foss
Opinion: paying 1,50€ for 30 minutes of wifi access (in your hostel) is ridiculous.
settled in. tomorrow will be a sight-seeing day in Brussels. Any recomendations? Any good (as in FREE, as in Beer) WiFi spots?
bringing an ethernet cable with me already paid off. Flight delayed, but I’m online @ OPO
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almost finished packing for my trip to brussels tomorrow. FOSDEM here I come!
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can’t start pidgin/empathy/nautilus in fedora 12. Looks like Gstreamer acting up. Anyone now a fix? linux